Git gud, Shaw!

Silksong is GOTY and Best Game You Suck At on Steam. Labor of love is BG3, which is still not fixed in terms of stability and performance in the last chapter.

#Steam@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Just in case you were looking for video editing software, DaVinci Resolve 20 got actually usable, even the free version — it's now fast, mostly reliable, and simplified enough to be good for YouTube edits.

And no, I could not recommend 18 and previous versions, since they were not accelerated well, created huge proxy files, and so on. Now the paid tier is a must for several extra features, like denoiser and collaborative workflows.

But even free version now can run almost any reasonable codec without proxies, can do tons of effects on a consumer-grade card without any lags, and so on. I still hate hotkeys, there are obvious usability bugs, but overall, it's a huge step forward (at least on Windows).

#Software@GameDEV

A useful batch-processing plugin for GIMP 3 (since BIMP is limited to GIMP 2.x): it can do tons of stuff on folders and file queues and runs very fast, since it's relying on GIMP acceleration.

The noscript can be as complex as you dare to make it, like running certain actions on certain layers, like "blur on current layer".

https://kamilburda.github.io/batcher/
#Free@GameDEV
#FOSS@GameDEV
#Software@GameDEV

It seems that Microsoft is forcibly deleting Paint for some users in a form of "system update"...

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#Windows@GameDEV

By the end of 2025 Stack Overflow basically died. Search engines stopped suggesting it, users stopped asking questions.

The rise of LLMs is only a part of the issue. The biggest deal was the extremely toxic and conservative community:

Active replies were insulting, but also often outdated — ignoring new features and environments. Because of that even before AI Reddit and some other UGC platforms started to gain traction for developers to discuss their issues.

#StackOverflow@GameDEV
#Programming@GameDEV

What a notoriously bad idea!

https://lyra.horse/fun/foldy-bird/ — payable on Galaxy Fold 🌚

#Samsung@GameDEV
#MobileGames@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Playing that new fancy game now, called Borderlands 2 🗿

#meme@GameDEV

Hopium!

#HalfLife@GameDEV
#Opera@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Yeah, the moment when he tries to install DaVinci is exactly how I felt doing the same!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDARtFe8rV0
#Linux@GameDEV

Translation time! (via)

#AI@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

🌚 122h

#Bethesda@GameDEV
#Bugs@GameDEV

What a legacy!

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

What a story to tell: the kid vibe coded an insanely big Godot protect in several months. He never used version control and eventually was suggested to use Terrain3D.

He got it the wrong way and not the version for his Godot. So his whole project got broken. Yet again: 11 months, no version control.

Now he acts even crazier on Reddit, arguing with people and holy fuck, he USES AI TO REPLY TO PEOPLE ABOUT THE ISSUE AI LED HIM TO.

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

From our precious chat ❤️

#meme@GameDEV

A nice lens flare effect for Godot (will be available later, here). The guy updated the old plugin to be a compositor effect.

Old version for Godot 3: https://github.com/SIsilicon/Godot-Lens-Flare-Plugin

#Shaders@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

When the admin can't sleep at 3 am...

#meme@GameDEV

Crazy enough: I believe it has to be marked, but it has not be stigmatized the same way as genAI in AAA games. Steam already allows to set several different types of AI-use cases disclosed in the denoscription + a paragraph of custom text.

#AI@GameDEV

For the first time in years Linux... lost a bit of market share on Steam. Seemingly, the growth of Steam Deck fanbase is no longer that significant and the transition from Windows to Linux for the average gamer isn't happening.

This will not be the year of Linux!

#Linux@GameDEV
#Windows@GameDEV
#Steam@GameDEV